The Daily Telegraph

Police hunt migrants who sprang from lorry

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Police are hunting up to 15 suspected illegal migrants who jumped from a Spanish lorry in a Kent village.

Up to 20 stowaways bolted from the truck in Patrixbour­ne, near Canterbury, when the driver opened its doors yesterday morning at a fruit and vegetable distributi­on centre.

Locals reported watching them flee across fields, with two seen running to catch a bus. One witness described them as of eastern European appearance. Police captured four men.

Jim Parmenter, managing director of the distributi­on centre, Gomez, said he had lost £1million of imported goods that had been contaminat­ed by stowaways in the last five years.

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